Tag: Attorney General Xavier Becerra

The Santa Clarita City Council has voted unanimously to oppose California’s status as a sanctuary state, becoming the latest local authority to do so in an ongoing revolt against the state’s loose immigration laws.

Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa, the top two California gubernatorial candidates, vowed to defend the state’s sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants after the Justice Department on Tuesday evening announced it would try to use the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause to strike down the Golden State’s “sanctuary” laws.

Monday in Sacramento, CA, Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration for “its unconstitutional and illegal termination” of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA). California has the largest number of DACA recipients with approximately

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said President Donald Trump’s proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico Border was “medieval.” Becerra said, “I’m still trying to figure out who believes a medieval situation to fix the immigrant situation

On Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown sought federal help from President Trump by asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to declare “a major disaster” in California in light of the damage done by recent storms.